Wednesday, November 01, 2017

After Sanremo Giovani hopefuls (see previous post) it's time to reveal the ones who has made it out of over 800 submissions to the shortlist of 145, wherefrom a selection committee will choose 2 to Sanremo 2018 festival's newcomers category. The auditions take place before the end of the month and the artists will perform their new unreleased entry for Sanremo for them.

Also here some familiar names from Junior Eurovision winner Vincenzo Cantiello, winner of Festival della canzone Italiana in New York Rita Manelli and a few previous particiants from various talent shows. If qualifying for the festival is hard in Sanremo Giovani, this one's even harder. In total this year there has been nearly 1500 submission for the newcomers selection, and only 8 will make it all the way to Teatro Ariston next February....